Because Open Server can convert all Sybase-supported character sets to and from Unicode (ISO 10646), UTF-8, an Open Server application can perform indirect conversions between any two Sybase-supported character sets.
This ability to perform indirect conversion means that an Open Server application can be used to enable communication between applications and servers that use character sets in different language groups (note that loss of data may occur).
For information on how to set up an Open Server application to act as a conversion gateway, see “Creating localized connections for Open Server gateways”.
